Update: if you are looking at this post but not at the front page, well.. Get over there now! The new single “Angry Sun” is out and available for you to download!

Here at Mount Valley, we have a relatively new policy of not announcing a specific release date or release week for our new records until they are ready to ship.

So, in the spirit of this policy, we are pleased to announce that Asa Milbankx has a brand-new single on the way: Angry Sun. We are even more pleased to announce that Mount Valley will be releasing Angry Sun at some point within the next two weeks.

If you are a fan of Simple Shapes + Patterns or the Milbankx singles, you will love Angry Sun; it is a different sound that you are going to dig.

Watch this space for more details over the coming few days, which will culminate in the release of “Angry Sun.”

If you are a newcomer around these parts, we have something you might enjoy. Analog Birds’ most recent album, 2007′s Musique Concrete, is back for download. You can download the full album below, and/or stream track number 2, “Trophies by the Bay.” If you dig this album, kindly sign up for MVML, our mailing list, on the right-hand side of this page, third box from the top. Thanks for your support.

As we prepare for the onslaught of new Asa Milbankx material, lets take a trip back to a more innocent time… October in the Year of Our Lord 2008.

It was a time when we had George W Bush in the White House, a time when we the economy was just beginning its rickety collapse… a collapse that many believe was exacerbated by Simple Shapes + Patterns.

Under the band name The Latters, and the pseudonyms Jon Domino and JM Ward, Asa Milbankx recorded and produced the entire album himself. Unfortunately, he also drew the childlike and off-putting cover artwork, but you cant win em all. After the release of this album, some of you may have seen the Latters play live; it was quite a spectacle. The group blossomed into something more than the solo album that preceded it.

Now we present, for the first time in a year or so, the entire album, for your freeloading pleasure. In 320KBPS MP3: